He was a true ally of the US.
At 02:19 PM 4/27/2007, you wrote:
>Jennifer Compton wrote:
>>The Bridge Over The River Drina doesn't suck - but it is way too
>>much for me. It describes horrors - the same sort of horrors that
>>happened and still happen - and I know they happen, but in the book
>>they got right under my skin and I simply couldn't read on.
>
>I wish people would quite REMINDING me of stuff. Disgust and
>horror? I give you Mario Vargas Llosa's *The Feast of the Goat*, a
>presumed fiction about the last days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,
>the Dominican dictator. Included are his grotesque pedophilia, his
>assassination, and the post-assassination revenges perpetrated by
>his two sons Ramfis and Radames. The fact that Llosa turns Trujillo
>into something resembling a fully rounded human being makes him even
>more appalling than his political acts, which included the massacre
>of hundreds of Haitian refugees.
>
>ken
>
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>Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
>"It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to
>laugh at that man."
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